Tenez wrote:Frankly if Schwartzy can take a set and coudl even have led 5/1 in teh second...then Thiem can do some damage. Importantly, he seems able to run and last for ever...and unlike Nadal he is not bluffing it!

I actually thought he was bluffing it during the second set...when Cecchi had him on the ropes.

naxroy wrote:he is not a bad volleyer, but he is no top volleyer either

Agreed - having watched him live at Wimbledon I was impressed by the softness of his hands and his willingness/ability to use angles and vary the pace. That said, his use of volleys is almost invariably to finish points rather than as an aggressive tactic during the course of the point. Far too many modern players even look uncomfortable coming up to the net to finish a point - Nadal is emphatically not one of them.

Yeah...another floating BH landing on the line. It's weird how he finds hims 6 BPs down considering he plays all points the same as if it was the most important point...but somehow manages to save them all. Yet...delpo hasn't got that luck.